Robert Stone
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Robert Stone (August 21, 1937-January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and then for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Stone had been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction five times, but he did not win it in 1975 for his book Dog Soldiers.
This novel was included in Time magazine's list of the Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
During his lifetime Stone was made into the film Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), starring Nick Nolte, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award.
During his lifetime, Stone served as Chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors for more than thirty years, he also provided his own support and appreciation to writers.
Many of his books are set in unusual, exotic locales of growing social turbulence, including the Vietnam War; a post-coup dictatorship in Central America; Jim Crow-era New Orleans; and Jerusalem on the brink of the millennium.
Life
Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a "family of Scottish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics" who made their living as tugboat workers in New York harbor. He was brought by his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia, up to the age of six; after she was institutionalized, he spent many years in a Catholic orphanage. The protagonist Mackay is placed in an orphanage at age five and has "the social dynamics of a coral reef," he has described in his short story "Absence of Mercy," which he has dubbed autobiographical.
Stone's novels' battered protagonists and "harrowing creations" all seem to have a "mix of gloom and bleak irony" that would have arisen from his mother's schizophrenia: he had a difficult upbringing (his father abandoned Stone's mother shortly after his birth) and Stone had his share of drug problems: he had a rough start (including a bout with alcohol and opioids. During his senior year, he was barred from a Marist high school for "drinking too much beer and being "militantly atheistic." Stone joined the Navy four years later. He traveled to several remote destinations, including Antarctica and Egypt, while at sea. But Stone said it was his first shore leave in a pre-Fidel Castro period Havana, Cuba, that left a lasting impression on Stone's future writing:
Stone's creative imagination was influenced by several maritime experiences, some of which were chronicled in his book Prime Green, which was published in 2007. These first-hand experiences can be traumatic: Stone witnessed the French Army bombing Port Said.
He briefly attended New York University in the early 1960s; served as a copy boy at the New York Daily News; married and relocated to New Orleans; and then resumed to Stanford University's Creative Writing Center, where he began writing a book. Despite being affiliated with influential post-Beat Generation writer Ken Kesey and other Merry Pranksters, he was not a passenger on the famous 1964 bus ride to New York, contrary to some media accounts. He arrived on the bus and led Kesey to a "after-bus party" in New York with dyspeptic Jack Kerouac.
Stone, although he never obtained an undergraduate degree, taught in a variety of university departments around the country. During the 1993-1994 academic year, he taught at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars during the 1993-1994 academic year before transferring to Yale University. He taught creative writing at Beloit College from 2006-2007. Stone owed an endowed chair in Texas State University's English department for 2010-2011 academic year. He was also active in several of the writing workshops in and around Key West, Florida, where he lived during the winter months. Stone was named honorary director of the Key West Literary Seminar, which he served in as a director for the entire decade of his life.
Stone admitted (during a newspaper interview) that he suffered from severe emphysema at age 72, just after the release of his second short-story collection Fun With Problems: "It's my punishment for chain-smoking." But with a wry laugh, he recalls his reaction when told of the danger that smoking might do to him in old age: "I'm not going to know I'm alive!" "I am a student at the University of On the other hand, there are some people who are not."
Stone died in Key West, where he and his wife spent their winters for more than twenty years, according to his literary agent, Neil Olson. He was 77 years old at the time. Stone's wife, (of 55 years), Janice and her two (adult-age) children, a daughter named Deirdre, and a boy named Ian were all living at the time of his death.